Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida, 30 miles north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the seat of government and the most populous city of Broward County, with 182,760 residents at the 2020 census. The city was first incorporated in 1911 and takes its name from a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War, which in turn honoured Major William Lauderdale. The area had been inhabited for at least 2,000 years by Indigenous peoples associated with the Tequesta culture. Fort Lauderdale is known as the Venice of America for its 165 miles of inland waterways, and its economy combines tourism with marine industries, manufacturing, finance, aerospace and film production. It has a tropical rainforest climate under the Koppen classification.